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Geological Frame is an experimental study of how humans shape and represent the Earth's landscape. Bui utilizes the most ubiquitous geometric form the rectangular volume and uses the grid to inspire unique land surveying techniques. Framed with brass and infilled with wood massing, these sculptural landscape microcosms reveal the richness of how we perceive the land.

Di An Di is a Vietnamese Restaurant and Bar in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. The interior is meant to reflect the food and the culture of the restaurant itself - Fresh, bright, transportive, and driven by community.

The design/build team led by Huy Bui in collaboration with Michael Yarinsky tapped into the finest in the Brooklyn Design Community to manifest the vision of the founders, Kim Hoang, Dennis Ngo and Tuan Bui. Custom lighting is by Ladies & Gentlemen Studio, wallpaper is by Calico Wallpaper and Flavorpaper, wood surfacing is by Madera Surfaces, and the custom banquette framework was fabricated in the neighborhood at A/D/O.

Their name of the restaurant is an endearing phrase in Vietnamese between friends and families that translates to “Let’s go eat.” Brought to you by first generation Vietnamese-Americans, it features high quality Vietnamese food that's rooted in tradition but served in a contemporary, festive and resolutely New York setting. This is what the space delivers.

VERTICAL LANDSCAPESis a Plant-in City Installation suspended in space in the Retail Shop at A/D/O that occupies a vertical volume, staggered with a series of Plant-in TOPOs and Air Terrariums, wired, tethered into space, grounded by a GRID TOPO (A grid framework topography) embedded with moss and sandy elements. The project is an ongoing exploration of integrating the wilderness into the city and explore the metaphysical nature of flow.

Huy Bui is a member of the Workspace at A/D/O since the Spring of 2017. The design and construction of the project was facilitated at the Workspace, where the craft of digital and analog fabrication merge. The project is a working model of how nature in the city can evolve. Further explorations include how environmental sensor technology, renewable energies and irrigation systems can be integrated into the modular watershed installation.

This iteration of Plant-in City investigates the topic of, Art and Architecture in the Anthropocene, a new geological epoch where man has the largest impact on global ecology and how art and architecture can make an impact on this new era of human innovation and design thinking. This project explores how the flow of water and earth (sand, sediment) shape the environment in deep time a guiding principle to the design of Vertical Landscapes.

21st Century Terrariums, Mark Miller Gallery, New York City January 2013 - (Plant-in City/Solo)

Lowline Edition: Mad Scientist

This terrarium was a collaboration with The Lowline Underground Park: A proposal of an urban green space in Lower Manhattan, The Lowline Lab.

The spirit of the park is detailed in the materiality of the structure that features a charred blackening, Shou Sugi Ban process, of burning wood to protect wood from decay, pests, wind, water, sun and fire. The terrarium structure also includes a steel and aluminum wire frame architecture that play host to air plants.

Di An Di is a candidate for “Best Restaurant of 2018” on Eater ... would love your vote for one of the hottest and best Vietnamese Restaurants in NYC for years to come. .
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. 🏆Link in profile on @eater Vote 🗳 for Pho🍲 .
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Big thanks to the founders @dennisngo @kimsm00th @tuanster808 for creating a place where we can eat amazing Vietnamese Food. .
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Big thanks to the design collaborations and communities of @calicowallpaper @myarinsky @ladiesandgentlemenstudio @maderasurfaces and @ado for creating a vibrant hub In Brooklyn! .
- photos by @charlieschuck @naotoono

Green House Dreams 🌵🙏🏼💚 @haarkon_ just created a new book on greenhouse visits and adventures around the world! 🌱🌿 #wishlist

Tegallalang Rice Fields, The Cultural Landscape of Bali Province: the Subak System as a Manifestation of the Tri Hita Karana Philosophy, which brings together the realms of the spirit, the human world and nature.- Unseco Heritage. 💦 🍚 🙏🏼🌱
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discovered @ignant_travel 📷 @manueldietrichphotography
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Thousand year old trees of an enchanted forest in the island of Yakushima, the inspiration behind Hayao Miyazaki’s animated masterpiece, “Princess Mononoke” which deals with the struggle between nature and man 🌳👤@tmagazine 📷 Chrystel Lebas.
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#enchantedforest #treeoflife

This landscape, Inspired by the island of Manhattan circa 500 years ago - "land of many hills” 🌎 .
Designed and fabricated @ado workspace #manahatta #cnc #gridtopo #topo

“We humans look rather different from a tree. Without a doubt we perceive the world differently than a tree does. But down deep, at the molecular heart of life, the trees and we are essentially identical.” -Carl Sagan ✨
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#weareallstardust #carlsagan #treeoflife

Floating Landscapes going NEXT LEVEL 🌿 come by and check out the new renditions of the grid topo and so many other amazing designers and makers✨
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Next Level
May 16-23
11A - 7P
718 Broadway, (near NYU)
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Made @ADO Workspace
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Come out next Tuesday for the opening party of NEXT LEVEL !!! Excited to be a apart of a thriving community of artists and designers ... special thanks to the hosts @asherisraelowstudio @patrickwederdesign @harttextiles @hereprojects for making this happen✨